GCWJAW That Devil Forrest (Traditional Cache) in Tennessee, United States created by Chasseur

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GCWJAW ▼

A cache by Chasseur Message this owner

Hidden : 6/12/2006

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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You can admire Forrest or despise him but no study of the Civil War in the west will allow you to ignore him. Unschooled, he became head of his family at age 17 and by the time the Civil War began he was a wealthy planter and slave trader.

Forrest became one of the greatest cavalry commanders of the Civil War without any formal military training. He took part in many of the major battles in Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi and was a major thorn in the side of Union commanders with his raids against Union supply routes and installations including a raid into Memphis. He was not without controversy during the war however, due to the massacre of black troops holding Ft. Pillow when his forces attacked. An investigation after the war by General William Tecumseh Sherman found no fault with Forrest. (This despite the fact that Forrest had been such a problem during the war that Sherman referred to him as, "That devil Forrest".) Forrest's greatest victory came at the battle of Brice's Crossroads when his force of 3500 men defeated a Union force of 8500 men and sent it scurrying back to Memphis.

After the war, Forrest settled back in Memphis and became involved with the Ku Klux Klan although he later attempted to disband it due to its increasingly violent tactics. He later distanced himself from that organization. Forrest died in 1877 and is now interred in Forrest Park.

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